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Broadgreen

Broadgreen homestead in Stoke, with its two storeys and 11 rooms, is unusually large for a New Zealand cob building (made from a mixture of mud and straw). It was built from around 1854 as a home for the merchant Edmund Buxton, his wife and six daughters. The historic house is managed as a museum and is open to the public.

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Carl Walrond, Nelson places – Nelson surrounds and suburbs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28998/broadgreen (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 31 August 2010, updated 22 April 2015.